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Running 3.4.1:
I see this strange anomaly, where a host check is in the middle of doing retries before hitting max_attempts, but after a server reload occurs, the next check is automatically forced to DOWN;HARD;1, as seen here:

[2013-06-04 08:40:21] HOST ALERT: 5gt4;DOWN;SOFT;1;CRITICAL: Connection timed out to '' after 160 seconds (user 'chk'). Expected prompt not found. Last output was ''.
[2013-06-04 08:47:18] HOST ALERT: 5gt4;DOWN;SOFT;2;CRITICAL: Connection timed out to '' after 160 seconds (user 'chk'). Expected prompt not found. Last output was ''.
[2013-06-04 08:54:03] HOST ALERT: 5gt4;DOWN;SOFT;3;CRITICAL: Connection timed out to '' after 160 seconds (user 'chk'). Expected prompt not found. Last output was ''.
(reload happens here at 09:00)
[2013-06-04 09:00:52] HOST ALERT: 5gt4;DOWN;HARD;1;CRITICAL: Connection timed out to '' after 160 seconds (user 'chk'). Expected prompt not found. Last output was ''.

Why is it skipping the rest of the attempts and going straight to DOWN;HARD after the reload ?
Seems like a bug to me.

Do you have "initial_state" set on the object?

'initial_state' is not set to anything
Remember that this is happening on a reload (I haven't examined what happens on a full restart).
thanks

Was this host configured for downtime? I ask because there were a number of bugs related to flexible downtime and hard states.

no scheduled downtime has been in effect for this problem

How many check attempts are set on this check?
Do you have more than 1 nagios parent process running?

max_attempts is 4

output:
$ ps -aef | grep nagios.cfg
nagios 5726 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:41:14 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25239 5726 0 22:58 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25330 5726 0 22:58 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25436 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25444 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25446 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25448 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25465 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25492 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25533 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25544 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25563 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 25615 5726 0 22:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

The process list looks fine as they are all children of the same parent process. Do you only experience this issues when restarting nagios?

I only find this happening when Nagios is reloaded.

I would suggest opening a bug with tracker.nagios.org , but you should probably first think about updating to the newest version and give that a go before you file the bug.